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You can only presume that haven't had a virus because you are not checking.
For all you know you have a trojan installed and your system is merrily
sending spam while you sleep at night!

If you are exceptionally well disciplined about clicking links in email and
on unfamiliar web pages, an adult can get away without A/V. But there
aren't many who can.

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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Illegitimi non carborundum"



On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Tom Huff <tehuff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That is what I have been told. But I am connected to the internet about 20
hours a day on average, seven days a week. I don't turn my PC off and I
have
been doing this for five plus years and not one virus in that time. Go
figure...

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bill
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:31 AM
To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] ESET antivirus

On 01/14/11 7:03 AM, Tom Huff wrote:
I stopped using antivirus software other than what MS sends about 5 years
ago. It has been great. I talked to someone at Best Buy and they said
that
I
probably had a lot of problems and did not know about it. So I purchased
a
virus checker and tested my laptop. It did not find anything to remove or
fix. I think they are just trying to frighten us into paying for virus
software.

Wow Tom, (I'm trying to find the kindest way to say this but) that's
just wrong unless you don't have internet access and you never have
anything connect to your PC that might have connected somewhere else.

Bill
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